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Updates to SharePoint default site themes: Coming June 2020

Over the last year, SharePoint has embraced the new Microsoft Office icons that were announced in late 2018. A large part of this change is the transition of the SharePoint identity from blue to teal, signaling a shift in the identifying color scheme. In order...

Galactic Collaboration Summit – upcoming online training event

Microsoft 365

Captain's log, stardate 365.0602.0609.2, our destination - to boldly go where no virtual conference has gone before. The Galactic Collaboration Summit is about to hit warp speed 10, to help you explore a Milky Way Galaxy full of sessions. Set your phasers on...

Microsoft 365 & SharePoint PnP Weekly – Episode 84

Microsoft 365

In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Rabia Williams – MVP, Developer with Engage Squared in...

Microsoft 365 & SharePoint PnP Weekly – Episode 83

Microsoft 365

In this weekly discussion of latest news and topics around Microsoft 365, hosts – Vesa Juvonen (Microsoft), Waldek Mastykarz (Rencore), are joined by Paul Schaeflein – MVP, Developer, Technical Architect...

Microsoft Information Protection and Compliance Deployment Acceleration Guide

Microsoft 365

The Microsoft Information Protection (MIP) and Compliance Customer Experience (CXE) team are part of M365 Security Engineering at Microsoft. We work with Microsoft's largest enterprise customers to help them accelerate deployment of our features by providing...

Re: Understanding Office 365 ProPlus Updates for IT Pros (CDN vs SCCM)

Implementation, Microsoft 365

, I'm taking the lazy approach. Let the C2R do its job, Microsoft improved a lot here and it is working smoothly. Via collections I'm identifying the amount of clients under each major version and if I see higher amount of clients stuck in older version I'll dig...

Implementing Microsoft Exact Data Match (EDM) Part 3

Microsoft 365

Welcome to Part 3 of this blog series. First I want to apologize for the delay in getting this Part 3 published, my day job got in the way a bit! If you have not already read the first two parts I recommend it prior to reading this one. In Part 1 we discussed why a...

Perform Index reset for Cloud SSA using Multi Factor Authentication

Microsoft 365

I was working on a case recently, where the users were trying to delete the Index from SharePoint Cloud SSA and when followed the...

General availability of ‘know your data’

Microsoft 365

Announcing general availability of ‘know your data’ (discovery and review capabilities) in the Microsoft 365 compliance center As employees shift to working remotely, it is more important than ever that organizations prioritize protecting their...

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Setting Edit Rights in a SharePoint Site – Approach with Caution!

There are risks of granting Edit rights broadly. This article underscores the importance of assigning Edit rights selectively and implementing controls such as versioning and approval workflows to safeguard critical documents.

Forms and Process Design Importance

Form and Process (workflow) are very popular provisions for Teams and SharePoint productivity. And it really doesn't matter which tools use to build these; great ones are Nintex Forms and Microsoft Forms. Both are modern, state of the art enterprise products which are...

SharePoint Requirements Analysis Guide

SharePoint User Requirements Analysis is vital; the corner stone in developing, deploying and providing a properly managed SharePoint environment. Because User Requirements is a very important area, you must have on board the relevant people resources that are...

Content Management Systems – Principles and Concepts of Information Assurance

A major challenge in businesses is a misconception, that data is 100% secure concerning any part of its data processing within that business. This data processing concerns the content management lifecycle; from creation, to storage, to distribution, to workflow and...

Workflow Service Delivery Options

This article takes a service delivery examination concerning workflow provisions around SharePoint, Office365, Windows Azure to help you understand the implications there are for organisations needing to improve business process automation, collaboration and...

SharePoint Service Level Agreement Guide

Support service development for SharePoint is crucial to ensure sustained SharePoint Governance and User Adoption. I had the situation where in building a SharePoint support service that a customer needed the provision of support to be handled differently for a newly...

SharePoint and the Internet of Things

Bold statement time. The Internet is a collection of machines - and there is more data generated by machines than humans. IOT (Internet Of Things) is connected devices providing data which will simplify, enhance, and enrich our lives. Already connected devices are...

SharePoint Governance Guide

Not a hardware, software, or people resource solution. It is an organizational strategy and methodology for documenting and implementing business rules and controls related to your client’s data. It brings cross-functional teams together to identify data issues...

SharePoint Delivery Planning Guide

As part of my book, SharePoint 2013 User Adoption Planning and Governance, below is a SharePoint Delivery Detail Plan. This plan encompasses the tasks required to deliver a SharePoint solution from Envision through to User Adoption.

SharePoint Archive Planning Guide

History has a way of repeating itself. Thankfully, when we learn from the mistakes of the past, we are able to address new challenges more quickly and in smarter ways. In the early 1990s, email emerged as a collaboration mechanism, speeding up communications between...